the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
"strongly" condemned the kaboom in southwestern Pakistain that killed 81 people,
The other two alternatives were to ignore it or to applaud it, so I guess he went with the one that was polite.
calling on authorities there to act quickly against those responsible,
We're talking about Pakistain as the govt and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as the murderers. The last time this happened, which wasn't long ago, the Hazaras refused to bury the bodies of those murdered and they tromped through the streets hollering slogans against LeJ. At which point the students of one of the madrassahs came boiling out to thump them. At which further point there were no cops in sight to prevent the thumping.
his front man Martin Nesirky said Sunday.
Noting that this is the second attack against the Shia community in Quetta in the last few weeks,
Nor is it the last. It won't be while LeJ remains a "strategic asset" of the government and the government regards Shias, Ahmedis, Hindoos, and Christians as ninth-class citizens. Or maybe not as citizens at all.
Ban "calls for swift and determined action against those claiming responsibility and perpetrating such actions," Nesirky said in a statement.
"Oh, yasss! Only determination and swiftitude is required! Take them to court, where their guilt can be disproven and their carcasses freed to skulk the streets once more!"
He "reiterates the strong support of the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
for efforts by the Government and people of Pakistain to protect religious and ethnic minorities and to combat the scourge of terrorism," the front man added.
"Watch His Excellency The Secretary General's lips as they pay service to such support! Truly such sentiments are not generated on a word processor with a macro set to the alt-F3 keys! Rather they come directly from His Excellency The Secretary General's heart!"